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Please read Wikipedia:Cleanup process for instructions on maintaining this page. There may be more suitable pages for requests, see the resources for collaboration box on the right.

For articles that just need wikification, you should use the {{wikify}} template. See Category:Articles that need to be wikified for articles that need wikifying.

If an article needs further cleaning up, add {{cleanup}} to the top of the article. To see articles with this tag added, see Category:Cleanup

Some editors prefer that helpers work on leftovers and older articles, just to deal with them and get them out of the way. See the cleanup calendar for requests from previous months. But either preference, new or old; all help is appreciated. If you have a cleanup routine, add your name and your routine preferences (how often, old/new articles, what subjects, etc ) to the cleanup routine list.

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October 23

October 22

Comment: vfd... [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 22:03, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
Comment: if this is changed into a footer, the placement of this template in the articles that use it needs to be changed as well. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:46, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dave Sim unsubstantiated hyperbole, not even close to NPOV -- Rick Block 01:18, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Captain Albert Steiner was posted as a cleanup but not listed here. He's a character from "Final Fantasy IX" which my son happens to have. See, it does pay to have a game console at home.  :^) I've cleaned and formatted it somewhat. - Lucky 6.9 00:13, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Ecclesiastical dic. def. Sam [Spade] 00:07, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Polemic dic. def. Sam [Spade] 00:05, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Emo - Messy and inconsistent on the very definition of the word. See talk page for details. ~ Resister 00:04, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 21

  • Gregg Alexander - an absolute mess. RickK 23:43, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Kisii - unwikified text dump, possibly copyvio translation from http://www.kisii.com. RickK 23:21, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo - unwikified text dump. RickK 23:02, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Birzebbuga - one short sentence about the town, one long paragraph about the town's marching band, huge photos of questionable copyright status. RickK 22:39, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Andrea Spinks - a POV mess, reads like a copyvio. RickK 22:29, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Heart Mountain War Relocation Center - Kiddie-wiki sans real wikis, but a good start to a legit article. I'm surprised this wasn't already listed! - Lucky 6.9 22:08, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The Foot Shooting Party - thought it was patent nonsense, but it really is a Leonardo DiCaprio flick. Fannish and breezy style, no wikis, no formatting, no external links and lacks info. - Lucky 6.9 21:51, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Did some cleanup, still a stub, though it's only a 27 minute short, there probably isn't much more that can be said. RickK 22:30, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • OID and Object identifier should be merged into one article. Ray Dassen 20:58, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
  • Servite--what name should this article go under? Needs wikifying as well. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 19:23, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Painting -- while it would of course need more content, it's also needed that someone cleans up all the different link lists. ✏ Sverdrup
  • David carson - google scores plenty of hits so appears notable, article needs overhaul though. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 17:37, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Cleaned it, now it's a regular sub-stub and should be expanded. --ZeroOne 17:54, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Mugwump needs formatting, better flow, and additional information --thames 13:36, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Lionel Robbins was mostly an unwikified text dump. I improved it a little, put it still would benefit from wikification and verification/fact checking. jni 13:33, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Economy of Switzerland needs formatting and factchecking. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:49, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav needs to be reverted, vandalism--nixie 07:58, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Reverted vandalism, could still use expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:53, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
It seems to be an important formula that pops up in several fields in maths on several occasions. Could someone add, why it's so important? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 07:44, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

October 20

Added some context, but still needs more info. I'm not familiar with the book. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 18:37, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
Added more info about this series, but it needs more. 198.164.135.152 13:28, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Sabbatai Zevi - NPOV checking needed.Iain 16:35, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Portlands Energy Centre - unwikified text dump. RickK 05:41, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Communes of the Lot département - almost every active link leads to the wrong page or to a disambiguation page. Anyone know the standard disambiguation for French communes? Rmhermen 03:43, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
    • The standard disambiguation for French communes (when needed) is: "commune, département". For instance, we should have: Bach, Lot, etc. Thanks for working on this! olivier 06:25, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Red Herring (magazine) - Judging by IP, obviously the editors of this magazine have been adding to this entry. Lots of self-promo-type stuff. [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 01:19, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Chen Duxiu - Have corrected much of the original problems which resulted in cleanup request; still needs some copyeditting and some reworking of the biblio (chinese needs to be in parenthesis). Watch for continuous reverts by users meaning well but new. [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 01:17, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Naron--is this from Portugal? Spain? Needs formatting, context. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:32, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Warlock Lord - substub that couldn't be substubbier - he's a character from Terry Brooks' novels, if you need context, but that's all I know. —Stormie
  • Jon Gruden - bad attempt at humor. --DMG413 02:09, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Dong Khanh - Some sort of vietnamese emperor? --Pyrop 04:11, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Cainta, Rizal and Teresa, Rizal - Towns in the Phillipines, little or no context. Pyrop 04:19, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Mancur Olson - unwikified text dump. jni 14:36, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Synderesis - text enclosed in question marks is scanning errors for Greek text; someone learned in Greek needs to read the article and put the appropriate Greek words in. -- 00:28, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 19

  • LEPrecon is extremely breezy and fannish (hey, that kinda works!) not to mention unwikified. Could grow into a nice article. - Lucky 6.9
    • It's wikified now, but with more attention could grow into an even better article than it is currently. -sbeath
  • Agreed. Much better. - Lucky 6.9 21:53, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Divalent metals Probably for VFD, but perhaps this deserves a real article. Something about biology, but current text is nonsense, probably from a research paper. Academic Challenger
  • Land of Muggy--where is this from? Notable? Copyvio? Needs to be wikified. Possible vfd. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]]
  • Lisp Machines, Inc. - unwikified text dump. RickK
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Some parts are pretty messy, for example the part where it describes the things that Dr. Weird as done in the opening sequences, or the part about Meatwad's brain + I cleaned up meatwad and dr wierd a bit, not sure if its much better though. —siroχo
    • Isn't there some rule that Wikipedia isn't an episode guide? This article lists all episodes... [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 18:41, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Jakob Maria Mierscheid - a confusing mess, not yet in English, and not yet clear what it's saying; it resembles to some extent its counterpart on de: (which has further ext lks) but does not parallel it. Is "he" notable, or VfD fodder? (Removed from LoPbN where "fictitious politician" is reason to disqualify, since article is too vague to change that description.)
He is a fiction (a kind of joke actually) although a well known one. His "personal data" really is on the website of the German parliament, "his" article in the social democratic paper exists and sometimes he is mentioned in publications of the Bundestag. -- Zeitgeist 18:40, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It's from a user who was permanently banned on the German wikipedia for trying to insert blatantly pro GDR POV statements in articles. I guess its best if you just delete the section. -- Zeitgeist 18:42, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 18

October 17

  • Macedonian Empire All one paragraph, not in Wikipedia style, needs NPOV ("From this world of daring and passion, of questing and contradiction the robust Hellenism of Macedonia carried the art of man to the ends of the inhabited world, bestowing poetry upon the mute and, in the infancy of mankind, instilling philosophical thought.")
  • Leroy Chiao no lead section, not in complete sentences
  • Heinz Leymann - not sure if the subject is encyclopedic, but the current content belongs at mobbing, if anywhere. Niteowlneils
    • Mobbing itself could do with some tidyup. Jackiespeel 16:52, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Rufus Anderson - reads like a translation, could use some editing. Spatch 21:39, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler, killed Malcolm X. two lines of text. two hundred lines of court findings. Dunc|☺ 19:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Snowboarding - unformatted. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 19:45, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
    • Formatted, added sectioning, some clean up. May need a snow boarding aficionado. Zen Master 11:13, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Beatsteaks - context, formatting, get rid of non-encylopedic language. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 17:56, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan - looks like a copyvio, but doen't seem to be from my quick search. Needs serious cleanup, wikification, and factcheck. Could probably be trimmed down too. -R. fiend
  • Rebecca Riots - needs npov work - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]]
  • [[List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%E9tro]] The stations, except a few, shouldn't have their own page. Isn't there a map of the Paris Metro? [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
    • The talk page has a big discussion about this problem from an old VfD. Someone went in and fired off pages for all of them, now they sit stagnant. Half a year ago there was much talk, but nothing was done - the VfD essentially didn't go through. If the deletion call succeeded, you'd probably end up with something like the TTC subway, which I prefer, personally - stations are listed on a page for their line, rather than a page for every station. The other extreme is the London Underground approach. The difference between the Paris and London pages, of course, is that there were enough Londoners (and there was possibly enough history) to flesh out a good number of the London station pages... Any volunteers for Paris? Krupo
    • Cleanup instructions: If any station page linked there is just a few lines long, redirect to [[List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%E9tro]] and remove the link from that page. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 06:09, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wachovia Financial Center - Bulleted list that smells of a copyvio, but google doesn't find anything. --Kbh3rd
    • Copyscape.com showed one 2-sentence bullet to be a copy from the Miami Herald, which I've fixed. It needs bullets-into-prose. -R. S. Shaw
  • I'm not sure its a clean-up issue, but JongPark has made a number of new pages for unused scientific neologisms regulome, funcomics and expressome (that do need clean up and wikifying if they stay), and seems to have replaced content on the Genome and Proteome pages--nixie
I've moved funcomics to functomics, and changed everything currently here[3] to more standard formatting, but they do still need help rather badly--high headline to paragraph ratio, let alone issues like whether the topics are actually valid. Niteowlneils
I assume that the same person was also making changes from here 211.230.32.87 since they were happening at the same time. Some topics might be candidates for the wiktionary, but I would err on the side of deleting a few--nixie
Oy vey! OK, I've cleaned up the IPs formatting, as well as User:Jong. Niteowlneils 21:58, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've marked the entries that are really obscure to go to the wiktionary--nixie 02:18, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 16

  • Estelada flag - POV, bad prose, possible copyvio --Aramգուտանգ
  • Clove_hitch - not in prose. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 19:39, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Athrun Zala at first glance looks to be nonsense but is in fact the plot for a book. Very slimly got out of being speedily deleted. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 15:25, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • NT (temperament) - Looks like one of the Myers-Briggs types. This might be a copyvio, but if not it need formatting and wikifying. It must be likely that there are some similar articles for the other types. -- Solipsist 08:38, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Searches on a couple of strings in that turn up only Wikipedia mirrors, so probably not copyvio. -- Mithent
  • Gadag. gadfium 05:12, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Elastance. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]]
  • The Sleepwalkers - survived vfd but requires cleanup -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:43, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned it up, but could use a little expansion. I've never read the book or I'd do it myself. -R. fiend 19:35, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pseudo data - User:Sw5000 wants an NPOV rewrite, external links, and expansion on this article. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 00:32, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

October 15

  • Gastronomy [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
  • Hors and Dodola - unwikified, written by non-native English speaker. RickK 19:30, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • D4 - this is possibly interesting about 4 being unlucky, but doesn't belong here; should this redirect to Dublin 4 as it used to? - Mithent
  • T.J. Hamblin - notable person? [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 17:37, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified, deleted the part that read like a resumé. Is he notable though? -R. fiend 19:52, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Isaac_Asimov_Complete_Bibliography partially wikified by a number of wikipedians, but a lot more needs doing. Any Isaac Asimov buffs ready to help out? -- Cje 11:07, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC). I've added a number of wikilinks. Ray Dassen 16:19, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
    • Some details would be nice, like publication dates and whether the book is fiction or non-fiction. MK 07:11, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Chemical hazard, Nuclear hazard - basically empty. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 05:36, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of biographers - This article is so incomplete it's a joke. Obviously it can never be truly "complete", but right now it's a list of random authors that must have popped into someone's mind. Of the thousands of biographers out there I don't know why these few made the list. Needs work or it should go. -R. fiend 04:30, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Autonomous Learning - don't know if this is nonsense that should be deleted. It certainly needs a cleanup. GreatWhiteNortherner 03:19, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
    • I see some potential in this article. Corrected grammar, set as stub and deleted POV paragraphs (which was half the article). --Sw5000 16:30, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Cyropaedia (Xenophon)--wikify, style, verify?

[[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]]

October 14

Committed proposed POV cleanup, perhaps quotations should just be removed Zen Master 18:02, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

i removed them and tried some filler i hope its good enough anyone feel free to add of course--Larsie 21:34, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

has anyone tried the link on this "article" the info is almost an exact copy and needs to be either changed immediatly or deleted--Larsie 21:42, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • Particle (band) - are these guys notable? I'm thinking of listing of VfD if not. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:52, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • MTVX - May be a candidate for speedy delete. •→Iñgólemo←• 02:51, 2004 Oct 14 (UTC)
  • Hydrogen fuel - section headings, there may also be a duplicate to merge this article into. Rhobite 00:12, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC) Note: It's copied from a USGov site, so it's not a copyvio, but it still needs cleanup and possible merge. Rhobite 01:46, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • Part can be merged with Hydrogen, part with fuel cell. Should probably redirect to fuel cell. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:30, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Whitby Town F.C. - nonwikified and very long JFW | T@lk 11:29, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • List of state leaders in 2004 - The list of Asian countries is far from complete Aecis 14:34, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 13

  • Pneumoconiosis#Incidents - Ominous tone. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 22:04, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Skytrax - unwikified. RickK 19:47, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of Charmed Good Beings/Temp - a mess. Unwikified, uses British terminology (series instead of season) for an American show, uses phraseology which sounds like it's copied from elsewhere -- "Her face lined with years of wisdom, her hands the fountainhead of a power beyond belief, the Warren witch" for example. I assume this is about the TV series Charmed? The article certainly doesn't SAY so. RickK 19:40, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Rudolf Benesh - unwikified text dump. RickK 18:59, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Captain George Shelvocke - a mess Sarge Baldy 14:58, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Toxic mold - Needs less conversational tone. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 13:31, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
    • First pass at POV cleanup. added info, needs more scientific info. Zen Master 21:02, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Peace of Passau - needs to be reworked, am reading around subject but anybody who knows about it want to have a go? edd 08:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Vladislav Vancura - Oy! RickK 07:26, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Alson Weber - POV, non-Wikipedia standard format. RickK 07:18, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Thank God He Met Lizzie - also needing the works. Movie substub sans wikis but with some POV problems. - Lucky 6.9 02:51, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I did some POV expungement and added a couple appropriate wikilinks. It might now have grown from substub to stub. —Anville 23:13, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 12

Added some more bio, removed notice. Krupo 06:04, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
As it turns out, it's a copyvio, and I've marked it as such. --jpgordon {gab} 04:04, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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